SEN Teaching Assistant — Support & Inclusion

Riverside School; Greater London; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverside School in Barking Riverside is seeking a Teaching Assistant to support pupils with special educational needs in a newly-built secondary setting. The role involves assisting with planning, monitoring and delivering activities to enable access to learning.

You will collaborate with teaching staff, use IT as required, and contribute to the development of behaviour programmes while ensuring pupils’ health, safety and welfare during lessons and school trips.

Qualifications

• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• Flexibility and reliability.
• To be able to work as a member of a team as well under their own initiative.
• Organisational and time management skills.
• A passion for the enrichment of young people’s lives.

Responsibilities

• Support pupils with SEN.
• Contribute to discussions concerning pupils with SEN to inform for planning/reviewing or monitoring purposes.
• Be conversant with and use information technology equipment available within the school, loading information when appropriate.
• Assist, under the guidance of appropriate professional staff, with the implementation of behaviour programmes.
• Ensure pupils’ access to classroom activities.
• Assist, as appropriate, pupils with SEN in a range of activities outside the classroom e.g. pastoral support, school trips.
• Contribute verbal/written reports on pupils with SEN for review purposes.
• Be responsible, in the school setting, for the health, safety and welfare of pupils with SEN.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Team player

Organisational skills

Time management

Passion for youth

Job description

Riverside School in Barking Riverside is seeking a Teaching Assistant to support pupils with special educational needs in a newly-built secondary setting. The role involves assisting with planning, monitoring and delivering activities to enable access to learning.

You will collaborate with teaching staff, use IT as required, and contribute to the development of behaviour programmes while ensuring pupils’ health, safety and welfare during lessons and school trips.